I have been working in the wedding industry for 7 years now, 4/5 of those years I spent as a wedding planner as well as a blogger. As a planner I found there were many misconceptions about what our role involved. A few years on and I still get asked a lot of the same questions, one of them being ‘Do I really need a wedding planner" My venue has a coordinator so isn?t that just the same thing"’ As it’s been a couple of years since I planned a wedding, I thought it would be a good idea to get an expert wedding planner in to answer this question for me. Please may I introduce you to Carmela Weddings, Lisa and Sam a husband and wife team here to help explain more.
I have also asked Lisa and Sam to become one of the Blogs in house experts, so you will be seeing much more of them over the next few months as they talk all things wedding planning.
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I’ll pass you over to Carmela Weddings to explain more
‘Do I really need a wedding planner" My venue has a coordinator so isn?t that just the same thing"’

I hear the above statement a lot from couples and totally understand why it can be confusing! Although the names are similar, these two services are dramatically different and it?s getting more confusing with some venues starting to call their venue coordinators names such as ?venue planners? or ?wedding coordinators?. I?m going to try to shed some light on it for you.

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